LITE

The development of Advanced Laser Imaging Techniques for the Anterior and Posterior Eye (LITE) is a project that involves the creation of a hybrid system that will allow for new eye imaging techniques for the treatment of retinal and corneal pathologies. These new techniques will provide access to high-resolution images of both the retina’s photoreceptors and the collagen fibres of the cornea, through the latest adaptive optical methods.

The new system will provide a higher-accuracy diagnosis at the cellular level, affording better knowledge of retinal diseases and offering new, more precise effectiveness assessment parameters. This forms part of new up-and-coming experimental therapies, such as regenerative medicine treatments with stem cell implantation, for degenerative retinal diseases that are currently at a want for effective treatment and which are associated with severe vision loss.